Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic

A state-of-the-art overview of ancient logic for students and scholars, with in-depth analyses of its central themes.

List of contents

Part I. The Development of Logic in Antiquity: 1. The prehistory of logic Nicholas Denyer; 2. Aristotle and Theophrastus Paolo Fait; 3. Megarians and Stoics Karlheinz Hülser; 4. Late antiquity Benjamin Morison; Part II. Key Themes: 5. Truth as a logical property and the laws of being true Walter Cavini; 6. Definition Michael Ferejohn; 7. Terms and propositions Paolo Crivelli; 8. Validity and syllogism Luca Castagnoli and Paolo fait; 9. Demonstration Alexander Bown; 10. Modalities and modal logic Marko Malink; 11. Fallacies and paradoxes Luca Castagnoli; 12. Logic in ancient rhetoric Christof Rapp; 13. Ancient logic and ancient mathematics Reviel Netz; Part III. The Legacy of Ancient Logic: 14. Ancient logic in the middle ages John Marenbon; 15. Ancient logic from the Renaissance to the birth of mathematical logic Mirella Capozzi and Leila Haaparanta; 16. Ancient logic today John Woods.

About the author

Luca Castagnoli is the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Clarendon Associate Professor in Ancient Greek Philosophy at the University of Oxford, and a Fellow of Oriel College. He is the author of Ancient Self-Refutation (Cambridge, 2010) and the co-editor of Greek Memories: Theories and Practices (Cambridge, 2019).Paolo Fait is the Anthony Quinton Fellow in Classical Philosophy at New College, Oxford. He has published a translation and commentary on Aristotle's Sophistical Refutations (2007) and articles on Aristotle's logic and metaphysics.

Summary

This state-of-the-art overview of ancient logic for students and scholars covers the development of logic in Aristotle and the Stoics, the key concepts at the heart of the ancient logical systems and the legacy of ancient logic in the later philosophical tradition, from the Middle Ages to today.

Foreword

A state-of-the-art overview of ancient logic for students and scholars, with in-depth analyses of its central themes.

Product details

• Authors: Luca (University of Durham) Fait Castagnoli, Luca (University of Oxford) Fait Castagnoli
• Assisted by: Luca Castagnoli (Editor), Luca (University of Durham) Castagnoli (Editor), Castagnoli Luca (Editor), Paolo Fait (Editor), Paolo (University of Oxford) Fait (Editor), Fait Paolo (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.08.2022
• EAN: 9781107656772
• ISBN: 978-1-107-65677-2
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Philosophy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Ancient & Classical, Philosophy of Mathematics, Philosophy: logic, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy, Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500